hydrodata 0.4.1

A portal to hydrology and climatology databases in Python

hydrodata is an open source project and Python package designed to aid in watershed analysis. Hydrodata is capable of downloading, preprocessing, and visualizing climatological, hydrological, and geographical datasets pertaining to a given watershed. Supported datasets include: Daymet climate, USGS streamflow, NLCD land use, land cover, NHDPlus V2 though NLDI, OpenTopography DEM, and actual EvapoTranspiration data through SSEBopwith with further additions planned.

Why Hydrodata?

Hydordata provides a unified interface to access various databases with the minimum input data required. With just specifying a coordinate or a geometry in the US and data range all the supported databases can be accessed. The point data are returned as a Pandas dataframe and the gridded data are returned as xarray DataArrays.

Learn more

• Documentation: https://hydrodata.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

• Issue tracker: http://github.com/cheginit/hydrodata/issues

• Source code: http://github.com/cheginit/hydrodata